READ MORETechnics and the Urban: UK-SA Chair in Culture and Technics annual workshop.
The UK-SA Chair in Culture & Technics, a bilateral programme between the British Academy and South Africa’s National Research Foundation, convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.READ MOREHumanities in Session: Indenture Aesthetics in South Africa with Jordache Ellapen
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.READ MOREEncounters Documentary Film Festival: Encounters Talks
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.
Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.
The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening James Joyce's ULYSSES (88 minutes, UK, 2022) by Adam Low on Thursday 27 February 2025, followed by a Q&A with the director.
The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape.
The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research presents Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.